Heel-seat-fitting machine



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HEEL SEAT FITTING MACHINE Original Filed Aug. 24, 191'? 2 Sheets-Sheet l Feb. 1 1921' D. w. BOWIE HEEL SEAT FITTING MACHINE Original Filed Aug. 24, 1917 2 Sheets-$heet 2 Patented Feb. 15, 1927.

UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

DERWIN W. BOWIE, OF \VOODRIDGE, NEW JERSEY, ASSIGNOR TO UNITED SHOE MA- CHINERY CORPORATION, OF PATERSON, NEW JERSEY, A. CORPORATION OF NEW JERSEY.

HEEL-SEAT-FITTING MACHINE.

Original application filed August 24, 1917, Serial No. 188,003.

Divided and this application filed July 3,

1922. Serial No. 572,417.

This invention relates to machines for shaping soles to prepare them to receive heels which are to be attached, the present application being a division of my co-pending application No. 188,003, filed Aug. 24, 1917, upon which Letters Patentof the United States, No. 1,432,524, were granted October 17,1922.

In the manufacture of shoes having leather heels it is customary to attach a rough heel, then to trim the heel and the edge of the heel portion of the sole simultaneously and later to scour and burnish them. \Vith wooden heels, this procedure has not been found to be practicable since to trim a wooden heel and the edge of a leather sole simultaneously in a satisfactory manner is diflicult if not im possible. Moreover a wooden heel is commonly covered with a thin veneer of leather which can not be subjected to the scouring operation without injury. Accordingly it is the practice to finish wooden heels completely before they are attached and to trim off the edge of the heel portion of the sole of the shoe so as to permit the upper edge of the heel to extend close to the upper of the shoe.

Each of these wooden heels has a cavity in its upper face; and the trimming of the heel portion of the sole should be such as to provide a seat to receive this cavity. Hitherto this operation has been performed by hand or by machines like that of U. S. Letters Patent No. 1,307,285, granted June 17, 1919, in which the work is held stationary while traveling cutters form the heel-scat, such machines having proved accurate and satisfactory.

A general object of the present invention is to provide a machine of a simpler type for use in fitting heel seats. To this end one feature of the invention comprises relatively transversely movable cutting means and shoe supporting means for forming an abrupt shoulder at the heel breast line of a sole attached to a shoe, or abrupt shoulders at opposite sides of the sole, to abut against the breast end of a heel. 'lhese shoulders may be formed on soles which have previously been treated, for example by the means claimed in Letters Patent No. 1,432,524, which were granted on my above-identified application, which forms a horse-shoe shaped bevel on each sole by removing waste stock about the periphery of the heel end, the

bevel and the shoulder or shoulders, taken together, providing a seat for the heel which is to be attached; or the bevel may be formed by the other means, either before or after the formation of the shoulders. I prefer to use a cutter operating transversely of the sole to form the shoulder, as described, and simultaneously to form a beveled section adjoining the shoulder to complete the cut made by the beveling cutter.

In the illustrated embodiment of my invention, power-operated rotary cutting means is provided and a shoe resting on a movable support having a gaging and supporting member entering the rand crease of the shoe is arranged to be moved relatively to the cutting means to form the shoulder or shoulders as described.

These and other features of the invention, including certain details of construction and combinations of parts, will be described as embodied in an illustrative machine and will be pointed out in the appended claims.

Referring now to the accompanying drawings,

Fig. 1 is an end elevation of a machine in which the present invention is embodied;

Fig. 2 is a front elevation of the machine;

Fig. 3 is a perspective of a portion of a shoe showing the heel-seat which is formed by the beveled cutter; and

Fig. 4 is a similar perspective showing the shoulders on offsets which are formed by the milling cutters.

Rotatably mounted in hearings in the frame of the machine are two shafts 5 and 7, the shaft 5 being driven by a belt 9 and the shaft 7 being driven from the shaft 5 by a belt ll. Fast to the end of the shaft 5 an end cutter 13, herein shown as of frusto-conical shape, and co-operating with this cutter is a guiding member 17 herein shown as a gage or rest the purpose of which is to facilitate guiding and turning the work while it is moved past the cutter 13. The gage 17 comprises a narrow plate having a beveled lower end adapted to enter the rand crease of a shoe and provided at its upper end with a transverse slot 19 (Fig. 2) to receive a disk 21 carried at the lower end of an adjusting screw 23. A screw bolt 25, which passes through a slot in the gage and is threaded into the arm 27 which carries the thumb screw 23, serves to hold the gage firmly in 3. A machine for operating on a sole previously trimi'ued by removal of a horse-shoeshaped section of waste from about the margin of its heel end, said machine comprising, in combination, a cutter, a gage adjustable to vary the depth of the cut, and treadle-controlled means for relatively traversing the cutter and gage to form sharp offsets or shoulders at the ends of the trimmed portion of the sole.

4. A heel seat fitting machine comprising means for completing the fitting ot a sole which is attached to a shoe and which has been trimmed about the periphery of its heel end, said means including a power-operated rotary cutter and shoe supporting and positioning means co-operating therewith to form a sharp shoulder transversely of the sole at the heel breast line.

5. A heel seat fitting machine comprising means for completing the fitting of a sole which is attached to a shoe and which has been trimmed about the periphery of its heel end, said means including a cutter, a shoe supporting device, and means for relatively traversing the cutter and said device transversely of the sole: of the shoe to form a heelengaging shoulder at the heel breast line.

6. A heel seat fitting machine comprising means for completing the fitting of asole which is attached to a shoe and which has been trimmed about the periphery of its heel end, said means including a cutter, a shoe supporting device, and means for relatively traversing the cutter and said device transversely of the sole of the shoe to form a heel engaging shoulder at the heel breast line, and means for relatively adjusting said device and said cutter to change the depth of the shoulder formed thereby.

T. A machine for fitting the sole of a shoe to receive the cavity in a heel comprising, in combination, a power-operated cutter, shoe positioning means, and a mounting for said cutter and positioning means constructed and arranged for relative traversing movement of the cutter and shoe so that the cutter operates vt'rom the edge of the sole of the shoe inwardly to form a sharp shoulder or offset at the heel breast line which terminates beiore reaching the center of the sole.

8. A machine for fitting the sole of a. shoe to receive the cavity in a heel comprising, in combination, a power-operated cutter, shoe positioning means, and a mounting for said cutter and positioning means constructed and arranged for relative traversing movement of the cutter and shoe so that the cutter operates transversely of the sole of the shoe to form a sharp shoulder or offset at the heel breast line.

9. A device for use in fitting the sole of a shoe comprising, in combination, a poweroperated cutter, and a shoe positioning means, said cutter and positioning means being constructed and arranged for relative traversing movement ot" the cutter and shoe so that the cutter operates from the edge of the sole of the shoe inwardly to form a sharp shoulder or offset and a beveled sole edge in a plane substantially at right angles to the plane of the shoulder.

10. A device for use in fitting the sole of a shoe comprising, in combination, a poweroperated cutter, and a shoe positioning means, said cutter and positioning means being constructed and arranged for relative traversing movement of the cutter and shoe transversely of the shoe to form a sharp shoulder or ofi'set at the breast line of the 9 sole of the shoe and a beveled sole edge in a plane substantially at right angles to the plane of the shoulder.

11. A device for forming a sharp shoulder on the edge of a sole comprising, in combina tion, a milling cutter, a shoe positioning device, and a mounting for said device for rocking it toward the edge of the milling cutter, to position a shoe so that the cutter will form a sharp shoulder or ofiset substantially at right angles to the edge of the sole of the shoe and a beveled sole edge in a plane substantially at right angles to the shoulder.

12. A machine oi. the class described comprising, in combination, a device for ope 'ating on a shoe, a pivotally mounted shoe positioning member including a gage seating in the crease between the upper and sole of a shoe, and means for rocking said member to present the sole of the shoe to said device, from the periphery progressively toward the middle of the sole.

13. A heel seat fitting machine having, in combination, a cutter operative to make a heel breast receiving cut in the sole of a shoe, a pivotally mounted shoe positioning member including a gage seating in the crease between. the upper and sole of the shoe, a spring to roc said member to an inoperative position away from said cutter, and a manually-controlled lever for rocking said member against. the tension of the spring to present to said cutter a shoe positioned by the member.

14. A machine of the class described comprising, in combination, a milling cutter, a shoe supporting device having a flange to enter the rand crease of a shoe, and means for relatively traversing the milling cutter and said device transversely of the shoe.

15. A machine of the. class described comprising, in combination, a. power rotated cutter, a shoe supporting device adjustable toward and from the cutting plane of the cutter, and means for relatively moving said device and said cutter to form a cut of constantly decreasing depth transversely of the sole of the shoe.

16. A machine of the class described having, in combination, a cutter, and a shoe support constructed and arranged to rock about an axis below the cutter in such a manner as to causemthe cutter to operate transversely of 'the'sole of the shoe and progressively to decrease the depth. of the cut made by the cutter. v 4

17. A machihefoi the classdescrib-ed co1nprising, in combination, a rotary shaft and fa pair of rotary cutters carried thereby a support pivotally-mounted to rock about an axis parallel. itothe shaft, and apair of shoe pos'itio nihg devices carried'by the support, one *adjacentcach cutter, for use in guiding a shoe thereto.

. "18. A heel seat fitting almchiriohaving a shoesupport, a cutter for making in the sole of a shoe upon the support a breast out against which the breast of a heel is to be )laced,.,andmeans for causing relative'ino'venient of the cutter and the shoe upon ,the support Etransversely of the sole of;the shoe t0 cause the cutter toenteritheesole irorntthe periphery andto cutxtoward the middle of the sole. I

19. ,1A 'inachine for "forming "abut merits in the soles ofshoes comprising a rotatable cutter and a Work resthaving a sole supporting and positioning member adapted to occupy thecrease at tlieside otthe'sh'oe between the outer sole and upper to support themarginal part of "the sole and present the same obliquelyto said cutter to allow the latter to recess theedge of the sole Ethereby to form an abutment for cooperation with a heel to be attached to the shoe.

20. ,A heelseat fitting rnachine corh-prising a sole-positioning guide arranged'to en gage a'shoeiinthe crease between the'upper and sole anda shoulder-twining too l=having a cutting edge movable obliquelyto the heel seat fisurfaoe and transversely of the sole edge from its outer toitsinnerside atlthe rear of the heelbr-east line to form a shoulder at said line.

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to the sole-engaging surface of the guide in all iposltlons of the sole With respect to the, cutter as the sole is supported by the 22. A heel seat fitting machine c-onjiprising aguide for the heel seat portion Off the sole of a shoe and a tool having a cutting edge movable about an axis from the outerside of the shoe sole tosaid guide and in a direction oblique to the sole surface atthc points of engagenient therewith to form a shoulder surface and an adjacent hertal-siumorti11g surface. v

23. A machine gtoriitting'th-e sole of a shoe to receive-the'cavity in a heel comprising, in combination, 'a .potver operated cutter, shoe lbositioning means, a niountingfor said outter and positioning means constructed and arranged for rel'z'itive traversing movement at the cutter and said shoegpositioningineaus so that the cutter operates transversely of the sole oi? theshoeto form a sharp shoulder surface at the heel'breast lineeXtending inwardly fIOIIIjEh-B exposed surface otthe sole,

and means; adjustable to vary the depth of the cut nade in forming said shoulder.

1A heel seat fitting in-achlne compris 111g a rotatable cutter and means plvotally supported upon an axis substantiallyparallelto the axis oft-hecutterconstructed and arranged to support the sole of a shoe so that'the heel seat of the sole is presented gobliquely to the cutter as said ineans'is oscillated about its pivot to cause thecutter progressively to remove material. .fIOll} the outside of the sole toward'the middle of the heel seat.

In testimony whereof I have signed my name to this spenzifieation.

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